Flex Awards 2022

Flex Awards 2022 was an award show held on January 22, 2023, livestreamed on the Flex Entertainment YouTube channel. It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of 2022. The nominations were revealed through various social media platforms on December 9, 2022. Long-time Flex artist Sammythefish hosted the ceremony.

Lil Squeaky received the most nominations with twenty-three, followed by Beetlebat with eleven. Beetlebat would go on to receive the most awards with seven. The "Flex Gang, Vol. 4" compilation album won Album of the Year. Beetlebat won Song of the Year with "Innocent." Lil Squeaky would win Artist of the Year.

Winners and nominees
Winners appear first and highlighted in bold.

Artist of the Year

 * Lil Squeaky
 * beetlebat
 * Kenny Mgee
 * Yung Lambo
 * Lil Stuart Little

Song of the Year

 * beetlebat – Innocent
 * Lil Mosquito Disease – The Hive
 * Yung Lambo – MidWorld
 * Kenny Mgee and Lil Squeaky – Up 2 U
 * Lil Squeaky – Feel Too Good
 * Hood Guy – What Are Doing
 * Lil Stuart Little and Yung Bink$– Pushin Cheese

Album of the Year

 * Various Artists – Flex Gang, Vol 4
 * Lil Squeaky – Art
 * Tending Bike – Tending Bike
 * Lil Stuart Little – The Life of Stuart
 * Royal Flush – Splash of Royalty

Mixtape of the Year

 * beetlebat – Be Dumb Bro
 * Hood Guy – Michigan Boy Baxter
 * Lil Squeaky – The Sex Tape
 * Kenny Mgee – Kenny Mgee Presents Flex Fridays
 * Yung Digging – Digtape

EP of the Year

 * Big Baller B – Prison Sentence
 * Lil Squeaky – Based 1
 * Hood Guy – Baxter's Collection
 * Lil Pony – Sweet 16
 * D69 – D69

Flop of the Year:

 * Tending Bike and LEGGOLAND – Top
 * Lil Squeaky, CRZFawkz and Litty Lean – I'm God
 * White Fury – I Am The Mod, Son
 * Hood Guy – I Need A Barber ASAP
 * Homer Misnomer – Powder Outage
 * Lil Stuart Little – New York Jit
 * Hood Child – Thugged Life

Most Underrated Song of the Year:

 * Kenny Mgee – Crackin Fingaz
 * Hood Child – Studio Bitches
 * Lil Squeaky and Lil Cox – Who Tha Fuck Is Pillsbury Doughboy
 * Lil Pinecone and Hood Guy – Chicago Life
 * CRZFawkz – Serious Chips

Worst Single of the Year

 * TopHat – Hidden Cameras
 * CRZFawkz – No Sleep
 * Yung Snoozy – $led Lif3
 * Yung Lambo – Ima Dog
 * Tending Bike – Blue Jeans 2

Producer of the Year

 * Lil Squeaky
 * Depp Gibbs
 * Flexuga
 * Izor12
 * Lil Pinecone

Best Diss Track

 * Duggy G – Dear Flex (Flex Entertainment Diss Track)
 * Lil Squeaky – Super Gremlin (Yung Lambo Diss Track)
 * Hood Guy – Kori Pack (Lil Kori Da Finne$$e Kidd Diss Track)
 * Yung Lambo – Ima Dog (Lil Squeaky Diss Track)
 * Tom's Black Knights (E.M.B.E.E. and Kenny Mgee) – It's Coming Home (Tom's White Knights Diss Track)
 * Lil Sac – Fuck Toby (Toby Diss Track)
 * Tending Bike – Crashed The Lambo (Yung Lambo Diss Track)

Best Posse Cut

 * Lil Squeaky, Lil Mosquito Disease, Tending Bike and Big Baller B – Menace 4
 * Yung Head$hit, Tending Bike and Hood Guy – 3 Headed Glizzy
 * Kenny Mgee, beetlebat, Lil Mosquito Disease and Lil Squeaky – Never Going Down
 * Lil Soz, Lil Kev, YN Pluto, Yung Snoozy, Homer Misnomer and Flexuga – Ratio
 * Lil Pinecone, Lil Soz, Young Seagull, Error404 – Rare Fish
 * White Fury, Dex, Yung Snoozy and Royal Flush – Dingle Dongle Donda 3

Best Cover Art

 * beetlebat – Be Dumb Bro
 * Lil Soz – Grist Ratio
 * Ivan Knight and the Imaginary Friends – 1958
 * Lil Squeaky – Art
 * Hood Guy – Michigan Boy Baxter

Best Drip

 * beetlebat – "Innocent" Leather Jacket Fit
 * Lil Squeaky – Teekkari Outfit
 * Hood Guy – "Fuckboy" Fit
 * Lil Pinecone – "Gender Is Over" Fit
 * Yung Lambo – "MidWorld" Business Suit
 * Big Baller B - "Silk Sonic" Leather Jacket Fit
 * Royal Flush - "Pants" Fit

Best Feature Performance

 * beetlebat – Darkness
 * Lil Squeaky - MidWorld
 * Koffdrop – Tapun Mummoja
 * Yung Lambo – NSFW
 * Big Baller B – Menace 4
 * Lanze – Get That Shit
 * Rich The Kid – Rockstar
 * Hood Guy – Only One

Best Comeback Song

 * beetlebat – Innocent
 * Lil Squeaky – The Return
 * Lil Mosquito Disease - The Hive
 * Yung Lambo – MidWorld
 * Yung Garfield – Addy Boys
 * BIGVLADMINVEVO – Bad North

Best Collaboration

 * Lil Mosquito Disease and Lil Squeaky – Proof
 * Kenny Mgee and Lil Squeaky – Up 2 U
 * beetlebat and Vandee – The Grocery List Song
 * Lil Soz and A.J. – All of The Stories
 * Hood Guy and Lil Squeaky - My Life Was Never Eazy

Composition of the Year

 * Lil Mosquito Disease and Lil Squeaky – Proof
 * Lil Squeaky – Change Your Life
 * beetlebat – Ghost
 * Ivan Knight and the Imaginary Friends – The Same Old Game

Music Video of the Year

 * beetlebat – Innocent
 * Yung Lambo – MidWorld
 * Kenny Mgee – Ur Gonna Die
 * D69 – RIP
 * Hood Guy – Megalodon

Controversy
beetlebat won a lot of awards, bringing controversy to both the stream chat and the discord call. Another awkward moment was the host sammythefish taking his shirt off towards the end of the show as well as his parents interrupting him, along with this he also decided to perform one of the worst covers of"somebody that I used to know" on a terrible laptop mic, disrupting the award show.

Amount of wins/nominations
Artists that won or were nominated more than once:

Wins

 * beetlebat – 7
 * Lil Squeaky – 5
 * Lil Mosquito Disease – 3
 * Big Baller B – 2
 * Tending Bike – 2
 * Kenny Mgee - 1
 * Tophat - 1

Nominees

 * Lil Squeaky – 23
 * beetlebat – 11
 * Kenny Mgee – 9
 * Yung Lambo – 8
 * Lil Mosquito Disease – 6
 * Tending Bike – 6
 * Lil Stuart Little – 4
 * Lil Pinecone – 4
 * Lil Soz – 4
 * Big Baller B – 4
 * Yung Snoozy – 3
 * CRZFawkz – 3
 * Ivan McKnight and The Imaginary Friends – 2
 * Flexuga – 2
 * Homer Misnomer – 2
 * Hood Child – 2